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Methlick Quiz Continued PSA Takeover (Mrs Still)

Happy Friday Everyone 🙂

Mrs Still has continued on her photo Methlick Quiz, how many can you recognise?

Let us know how you get on!

Methlick Streetview Quiz  

Methlick Streetview Quiz Answers

Dance Dance Dance (MILD, SPICY and HOT) #ExpressiveArts #HealthandWellbeing #LiteracyComprehension

Happy Friday Everyone,

Have you had a go at this weeks community challenge yet?

Not to worry you still have time to bust a move or two and send it to your teacher.

I thought i’d help you with some suggestions of dance moves:

Want to keep learning and dancing away, how about you try out our Dance Comprehension work where you watch a range of dances and answer questions on them, click below to carry out this fun activity.

Dance Comprehension 

Feel-Good Friday – Make a Leaf Mask

Now that the trees are in leaf and many of the flowers in our gardens are beginning to bloom, I thought we could try making decorative eye masks using natural materials.

Wearing decorative masks can be traced back to history of Venice and its carnival celebrations. The tradition of mask-wearing started in the 13th century when Venetians held many celebrations and parties.  They would wear elaborate masks to hide their identity, just like you may do at Hallowe’en.

Click on the Sway below to find a step-by-step guide for making your own mask.  It’s very simple, and you need only a few resources.  Remember to ask for an adult’s permission first!

 

Here is another quick tutorial:  How to make a Leaf Mask

Don’t worry if you can’t find any leaves or flowers – you could cut out leaf and flower shapes from coloured tissue or paper, or even draw your own.

Here is a link to a simple mask template which you can download and print out:   Mask Template

Once your mask is finished, why not make up a short play and then act it out while wearing your mask?  I look forward to seeing all your creations!

 

 

 

 

Photography Challenge for All Levels National Portrait Society and Duchess of Sussex Competition.

Hold Still, a portrait of our nation in 2020, is an ambitious community project to create a unique photographic portrait which captures the spirit, mood, hopes, fears and feelings of the nation as we continue to deal with isolation and uneasy times.

The Duchess and the National Portrait Gallery invite you to submit your own photographic portrait, taken during these extraordinary times, which responds to one of the following themes:

  • Helpers and Heroes
  • Your New Normal
  • Acts of Kindness

You can find more information at : Hold Still

We would really love for you all to give this a go whether you decide to submit it or not you can always share this with your teacher.

Photography Support PowerPoint.

I’ve teamed up with a friend of mine who is a photographer in her spare time, she has very kindly created a powerpoint with some helpful tips to help support and develop your photography skills.

Top 4 Photography Tips <<<< Click Here

Miss Deans’s Photography Interests

Click the Sway below to see what Photography Miss Deans has within her home.

 

Create a Pin Hole Camera

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Well-Being Wednesday: Mr.Mutch and Mr. Reid #7

This week they’re back but the competition is off. 

They have a different task for you this week. 

Watch this week’s episode to find out more

Are you up for some dancing?

Here is the link to the song on Youtube. You can also find it on other platforms such as Spotify.

Listen to the song first

There are different sections to the song and you could probably think of lots of actions.

Such as dancing around, saxophone, actually walking on sunshine and big dance gestures.

Get the whole family involved, you could send in more than once clip.

Remember to send in your video by next Wednesday 10th June.

So that we can put it all together! There will be no episode on Wednesday as we will be posting on Friday instead for the end of the Expressive Arts Grids 

New Learning Grids for Tuesday 2nd June – Friday 12th June

Expressive Arts Fortnight

Hello everyone!

For the next two weeks, we will be focusing on Expressive Arts – Music, Drama, Art and Dance. Click below to see our new Learning Grids.

Health and Wellbeing/Expressive Arts

Literacy

Numeracy

Remember, we all believe that having a growth mindset is very important so the activities are organised into the following levels.

Mild 

Spicy

Hot

Where will you start?

Let’s leap into the learning pit and learn from our mistakes to achieve GREAT things! The teachers will be sharing their attempts too.

Keep checking the blog,  please leave COMMENTS  and send your work to your teacher via email/Seesaw or add to your Sway so that we can stay connected.

Thank you!

Mrs Fraser and all the teachers

Feel-Good Friday – Fun with Fruit and Veg

For the final day of our Health Fortnight, I thought we could have a bit of fun.  You know how adults always tell you, “Don’t play with your food”?  Well, now’s your chance!

Today’s Feel-Good activity combines creativity with imagination AND healthy food.  Have you guessed what it is yet?

Your challenge is to make a fabulous creature using only fruit and vegetables.

Have a look!

Do remember to ask for an adult’s permission before taking any food to do this activity,  and make sure that you are being supervised if you are using any sharp kitchen utensils.

If you would like to email me photos, I can make a Sway to show everyone what you have created.  Have fun!

House Captain’s Sports Day Speeches

Hello Everyone, our Sports Day is almost here whether you have started your grid or not our house captains would like you to hear their speeches  to motivate you to do your best this week and earn some much needed house points 🙂

Haddo

 

 

Gight 

                  Schivas

Health and Wellbeing – Yoga

Hello everyone,

Yoga is great for the body and mind. Physically, it can improve our flexibility, strength and coordination. In addition, our concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation can improve.

More than one million children do yoga, mindfulness and relaxation with Cosmic Kids – https://www.cosmickids.com/about/

Why not try some activities and let us know in the comments how you get on! Here is a direct link to all the activities provided by Cosmic Kids – https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/

Health Heroes- Special Guest No5 Click Me #Formula1sFinest

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your week so far out in the lovely sunshine and enjoying our Health and Wellbeing learning opportunities.

It’s Wednesday so that means another Health Hero is here to enlighten you into their world of sportsmanship, please click the sway below to find out who our Special Guest is today.

 

 

As David said in his video, he started off his interest in motor sports from a very young age in a small town in the South West of Scotland. From many years of hard work and perseverance he went on to  compete in 15 seasons of Formula One between 1994 and 2008, taking 13 Grand Prix victories and 62 podium finishes,.

I would like to personally thank David Coulthard for replying and  taking the time to create this truly inspirational video for our very own Methlick School pupils and community.